However, a better and broader definition of publication bias is that it is any influence that reduces the amount of good science appearing in the literature. 2 Early work into publication bias ...

"Ideally, we sought an unambiguous definition (e.g., change in systolic ... So, there's still a publication bias towards positive results, but it's a matter of a change in emphasis within a ...

They are irrelevant because they are all dwarfed by another bias (for which there is no life-saving cure available in any of the statistical packages): publication bias. The problem is that if you ...